Use our resources – and help us improve them

In addition to working directly with students, faculty, and staff — individually or in groups — the CDL advances digital learning and scholarship on campus through online resources, many of which you’ll find referenced elsewhere on this website.

Examples include

• Creative Commons-licensed educational resources that anyone can use for their own learning or adapt for teaching others, such as Crtical Digital Practices and Life in Plain Text.
• The virtual commons Geneseo OpenLab, where any member of the Geneseo community can launch a personal or collaborative website. Take a look at how the Center for Integrative Learning is using OpenLab to showcase how Geneseo students are meeting the college’s integrative and applied learning requirement through interdisciplinary coursework, study abroad, and guided research; or how students working with Professors Michael Oberg and Alla Myzelev used it to build Chenussio, a website exploring the indigenous history of Livingston County; or how students and faculty in Music have used it to create a companion website to a live gallery exhibition of event posters from Geneseo’s past in Dorm Rooms Through the Decades; or how students like Laura Wright (’25) and Gwenyth Harrington (’27) have used it to build sites for their individual research projects. (The CDL helped Wright and Harrington spin off their OpenLab sites to free-standing ones on domains they own themselves: Educational Equity Watch and Transcribing Verse, respectively.)
• The community-sourced information and opinion forum GenAI: Generative AI at Geneseo, a moderated OpenLab site where any member of the Geneseo community can contribute content related to the uses and impact of AI, with special attention to how it’s affecting teaching and learning on our own campus right now.
• A public, searchable bibliography with a focus on all things digital that uses Zotero, free software for collecting, organizing, annotating, citing, and sharing research. Anyone can view the CDL’s public Zotero library; members of the CDL Zotero group can contribute to it directly.

We welcome suggestions for improvement to these resources. We especially welcome direct contributions to resources that are built to encourage community participation.